QPEM- Procedural sedation course

This training program focuses on pediatric sedation for procedures. It includes didactic teaching sessions, case-based discussions, simulations and practical workshops designed to improve clinical skills and critical thinking relating to procedural sedation.

The target audience are physicians with non-anesthesiology/non-critical care training background who require privileging for delivering procedural sedation of children in the Emergency Department. The program is offered to Fellows/residents rotating in Emergency Medicine as well as well as external health care practitioners who perform sedation in children. The course has a track for nurses as well that covers the nursing aspects of pediatric procedural sedation.

The learning objectives of the training program are as follows:

Apply pediatric sedation guidelines, including pre-sedation evaluation, monitoring and discharge criteria.
Differentiate between mild, moderate sedation, deep sedation, dissociation and general anesthesia.
Evaluate and apply agents used for moderate sedation, dissociative sedation and deep sedation including indications, contraindications, dosage, administration, side effects and implications for care.
Recognize patients at risk for developing upper airway obstruction and describe the appropriate interventions for complications that may occur.
Identify the essential components to be considered for returning patients to a state in which safe discharge is possible.

The topics that will be covered in this training program includes, pediatric procedural sedation guidelines, consent related issues, evaluation of patients prior to sedation, pediatric airway management, medications in pediatric procedural sedation, pediatric procedural sedation in action as well as case-based discussions.

The practical sessions include pediatric airway management as well as simulated scenarios.

The feedback of candidates who attended the previous pediatric sedation courses was hugely positive. One candidate commented (I have learned proper implementation of procedural sedation in pediatric patients which will help us deliver safe, effective and quality care/management).

The course speakers are experienced attending physicians in pediatric emergency medicine and pediatrics with long experience in pediatric procedural sedation.

Course Chair

Dr Khalid Mudawi is an attending physician at the pediatric emergency department of Sidra Medicine. He graduated from University of Khartoum in Sudan. He pursued his training in pediatrics in the South West of England where he became a member then a fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in London. Moreover, Dr Mudawi has joined the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland as member. He achieved the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) and worked as a consultant in the UK before moving to the Middle East working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia then Sidra Medicine in Qatar.
Dr Mudawi has extensive experience in clinical and emergency pediatrics. He has always been active in teaching and assessing medical students both in the UK and Qatar. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.
Dr Mudawi is the lead of the Pediatric Procedural Sedation Program (PPSP) at Sidra Emergency Department. He is active in the research group at Sidra and has a number of publications in peer reviewed journals. His interests include acute pediatrics, neonatal medicine, pediatric sedation as well as pediatric cardiology.

Course Co-Chair

Dr. Barbara Blackie MD, FRCPC, MEd is the Education Lead and a Senior Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine, providing faculty development, education/training for staff and leads the Simulation Program for the department. She is a Master Trainer for the TeamSTEPPS program at Sidra, teaches Pediatric Procedural Sedation, POCUS, PALS, and ATLS. Other activities include co-chair for the Scientific Committee for QPEM, the annual Pediatric Emergency Medicine Conference, and she is Vice Chair for the Procedural Sedation Committee at Sidra. She is also an external CME/CPD Surveyor for Department of Health Professionals (DHP) at the Ministry of Public Health and sits on the CME/CPD Advisory Committee at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she also has a faculty appointment. Prior to the move to Doha, she worked in Canada at a tertiary care, level one trauma center for pediatrics. In addition, she held the role of Associate Chief (Education) for the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and was the Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine residency/fellowship program.

Course Facilitator

Dr Tajeldin is a consultant in Emergency Medicine. He obtained his MBBS from University of Gezira, Sudan. He completed his Fellowship in Emergency Medicine (FRCEM) at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and was awarded a certificate of completion of training (CCT) in the UK. He worked in different hospitals in England and Wales.

Dr Tajeldin is an instructor for the advanced resuscitation courses including ALS, APLS and ATLS. Before joining Sidra in November 2018, he worked as a consultant in Emergency Medicine in Morriston Hospital, Swansea.

Dr Tajeldin’s special interest is in quality improvement in health care, health promotion and patient education. He led successful quality improvement projects in the UK and Sidra ED. He is currently the patient education lead in the Sidra emergency department. Using technology and principles of quality improvement, he is leading the transformation of education material delivery to emergency department patients and families.
Outside work he enjoys photography and film editing.

Course Facilitator

Dr Syed Haris Huda has been working at Sidra Medicine since January 2019, as Attending Physician. His interest is in dealing and managing Trauma and Acute medical /surgical emergencies in the Adult and pediatric population. He is the Lead for Minor injuries in the Emergency medicine at Sidra Medicine and Associate program director for PEM fellowship program. He is the chairperson for the Pediatric Emergency Resuscitation program (PERP) and Instructor in ACLS, PALS, APLS & ATLS life support courses. He is faculty member at the Weil Cornell medicine-Qatar. During his career, he has lead and managed Mass casualties and Bomb blast victims as well. He has a special interest in adult Medical education & teaches junior colleagues, peers and Nursing colleagues

Course Facilitator

Dr Omair Mohammed Syed is an Attending Physician in Pediatric Emergency. He joined Sidra in October 2022.
Dr Syed has done his graduation and post-graduation in Emergency Medicine in India. He was a gold medalist in his post graduate examinations in India. He moved to the UK and pursued his higher specialist training in Emergency Medicine and sub-specialty in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from Cambridge University Hospitals, UK – a Major Trauma Centre for adults and pediatrics for East of England. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK with Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).
Dr Syed has been the Lead consultant for Children and Young People’s Emergency department before moving to Qatar. In his previous job, he was also the Lead consultant for Point of Care Ultrasound in Emergency Department and is a faculty on Cambridge Level 1 Ultrasound course accredited by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK. He has worked as a panel member on ARCP (Annual Review of Clinical Progression) of the trainees in Emergency Medicine in the UK and as an interviewer on the National recruitment of Trainees in Emergency Medicine. He is also an Examiner for Fellowship examinations of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, London (UK).
Dr Syed enjoys teaching on life support courses – ALS (Resus council, UK), APLS (ALSG, UK), ATLS (American College of Surgeons). He teaches on simulations to doctors and nurses in the Emergency Department at Sidra. He also teaches on the Pediatric Sedation course and POCUS courses in Q-PEM/Sidra. He is currently engaged in a research trial at Sidra, alongside his regular job of treating children with Pediatric Emergencies.
Years of Experience - 16

Course Facilitator

Born in Baghdad 1977 and obtained medical degree from Baghdad College of Medicine in 2001. Residency was in Bagdad, North London, Kent, Nottingham, and Bristol. Completed membership and fellowship training in Emergency Medicine with subspecialty in Pediatric emergency medicine in London 2018. Obtained diploma from Edinburgh university for PEM and Diploma from Cardiff open university in medical toxicology 2021. Finishing now master degree in medical toxicology. In addition to Emergency medicine practice, ED clinical lead of Disaster Medicine in Sidra. Enjoy teaching and do that through PALS and ALS instruction, teaching procedural sedation, regional blocks and POCUS.

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